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sfcrazy writes "CERN has launched version 1.1 of the Open Hardware License (OHL), a legal framework to facilitate knowledge exchange across the electronic design community. The alpha version was launched four months ago. In the spirit of knowledge and technology dissemination, the CERN OHL was created to govern the use, copying, modification and distribution of hardware design documentation, and the manufacture and distribution of products."

No ironically medicine is the one area where they don't care about people.
They think of them similar to how public transport workers think of their passengers, they don't:P
Too much money in medicine and you know those chemicals be dangerous so we can't be trusted with them to apparently.

Most medical journals lock up medical information and require subscription or individual access. It would be really useful to have open access to all of the medical literature. (There are some open access medical journals but certainly not the majority.)

I am not an expert, but I think the big difference with Physics is that there is a lot of money involved (patents for new drugs, etc). In Physics, CERN and others had the vision of Open Access http://library.web.cern.ch/library/OpenAccess/ [web.cern.ch] for scientific publications, a mode in which the editing expenses are paid by the authors so that readers can access freely. This was possible because the big publishers were not really given an option: if they said no, physicists would publish on already-existing free pl

OSHW hosts a definition, not a license. It tells you "if you want to call your license Open Hardware by our definition it needs to fulfill these points". CERN OHL is a license that complies with these conditions.